ABSTRACT
Workforce plans are produced following the overall strategic planning and the HR planning processes, which set out the specific quantitative plans and details of how the capability needed for the future realization of the corporate goals will be acquired and retained. The HR strategies discussed in the previous chapter provide the context, the firm’s posture on competitive advantage, the direction of travel, and the assumptions and the reasoning behind the strategy. Workforce planning puts the facts and the figures on how the people who are part of the plan will achieve the objectives, and the options for developing and finding capability, and for using different kinds of contractual arrangements to bring this capability into the service of the organization.
